MIPS Assembly.

[Thiemo Seufer]

Chris Jones wrote:
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> Worth noting however is that it appears that these routines were
> rewritten by Linus adn put in /arch/i386/lib sometime in 1998. I guess
> the mips people are a few years behind the times?

Not really. The assembler used to accept branches to other sections,
and silently produced broken code when the branch length exceeded
128k.

> > This most likely needs a fix in the mips kernel, which is hosted at
> > www.linux-mips.org.
> 
> Yup. I will make a post here. Thanks for your help Thiemo.

A possible alternative might be to really use jumps in that case, but
I don't see how this can be done sanely without a symbol as jump target.


Thiemo